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| Description: | A group of boys play a game of cards while sitting on the ground between the steps of some houses. At least four boys wear caps, three are wearing pants wi... |
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| Description: | A group of boys "following their leader in search of adventure" in the street. The boys are barefoot and are wearing hats. In the background are a storefro... |
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| Description: | Several boys play a street game in a residential area, two blocks away from the deserted playground. |
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| Description: | Children having a stone fight in an unpaved alley or street in an underprivileged neighborhood. Some of the boys are holding trash can lids as protection, ... |
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| Description: | An interior view of soldiers gathered in the Y.M.C.A. game room at Camp MacArthur, on which construction began in 1917. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of veterans pose while playing horseshoes at the National Military Home, which opened in 1867. In the background, the top of the National Military ... |
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| Description: | Two men crawl on their hands and knees while two other men sit atop them holding pistols. A dirt road, a fence, and foliage are in the background. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A group of men play tug-o-war on a lawn near the side of a street. Two buildings are in the background. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Super Bowl, a bowling alley in Appleton, Wisconsin, with five captioned illustrations along the left-hand side of the page promoting the soci... |
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| Description: | The board game for the television show Men Into Space. It includes game pieces, trivia cards, a game board, and a spinner. |
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| Description: | Four groups of girls in threes playing the game "London Bridge Is Falling Down," on the boulevard in front of a house. This image is part of an album kept ... |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House of a boys summer camp, with an image of Skip Sul?(obscured letters) participating in a game involving tak... |
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| Description: | Young men playing a game of checkers at Neighborhood House. Three men are seated at a small table with the game board, while six others crowd around them, ... |
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| Description: | Children seated at tables playing board games and working on a jigsaw puzzle, with three women assisting. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Children have clasped hands and formed a circle in a game of "Drop the Handkerchief." They are in the schoolyard of Farmer's Grove School, District No. 3, ... |
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| Description: | Several Indian men kneel on a rug to play the moccasin game. One man is holding a drum and wearing a headdress (also called a war bonnet). |
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| Description: | View from street towards Jimmy Dodge's Lunch — Billiards business on Monona Avenue, which was next to the Madison Theater. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of a Native American lacrosse team posing holding their sticks before a match. A man holding a drum is standing on the far left. Two... |
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| Description: | A group of people playing a game at Taliesin. Some of them are kneeling on the ground. |
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